Housing Awards Success for Lar

Lar Housing Trust is celebrating being shortlisted in four separate categories in a prestigious sector awards scheme.

The charity, which specialises in mid-market rental homes across Scotland, has been selected as a finalist in the Scottish Home Awards 2024 in the following categories:

1. Affordable Housing Development (Social Rent under 100 units) - for its development at St Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh
2. Housing Regeneration Project of the Year – St Kentigern’s Church
3. Renovation of the Year - St Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh
4. Excellence in Accessibility and Inclusion – for its development dedicated to people with specialist housing needs at Ford’s Road, Edinburgh.

Lar’s Chief Executive, Ann Leslie, said: “We’re delighted to have been selected as a finalist in these four different categories. It’s a testament to the quality of work our team does and that we are clearly meeting housing needs in Scotland.

“The retrofit of St Kentigern’s Church is a prime example of repurposing abandoned and derelict buildings and breathing new life into them. Our development at Ford’s Road has provided quality and tailored accommodation to some of Edinburgh’s most vulnerable people. We are rightly proud about what we have achieved and delighted to get this recognition of our work.”